If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.

I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

I cured with the power that came through me.